Our Lady of the Rosary
It's better than when they turn churches into discos and nightclubs!
This seems backwards to me, unless they mean that in addition to removing the pews, they're going to fill all the previously vacant space with chairs.
As a general rule, pews hold more people than a similar array of chairs, because you can put more people into the pews just by having them sit closer together. With chairs, each person takes a "chair-sized" space, regardless of the person's size.
"Evangelical church to buy former Catholic parish"
Well, I guess that one way to get Evangelicals into a Catholic Church?
"replace the pews with chairs to accommodate more people"
Is this really necessary?
Our Lady of the Rosary
The title of the article is all wrong.
They are not buying the parish. They are buying the church building.
BIG difference.
I know of a diocese that is set to buy an old Proddy church to be used by its indult parish, so things work both ways.